ST Format 3 - October 1989
A special investigation into what makes violent ST games so addctive
Exclusive THE NEW STs
INSIDE: New Graphics section / DIY Project / MUSIC / CHAOS Theory
| • | Magic Eye | Get hypnotised by this weird and wonderful fractal demo |
| • | Xenon 2 | Sensational arcade-quality shoot-'em-up in playable demo form |
| • | Tinystuf | Pictures on the cover are often compressed to save space and so Tinystuf comes into its own in converting Tiny, Degas and Neochrome pictures from one format into another |
| • | DSlide | Slideshow program that not only displays pictures in all resolutions but also converts them from one resolution to another |
| • | Mono Emulator | A monochrome emulator for use with colour monitors |
| • | Colour Emulator | A colour emulator for use with monochrome monitors |
| • | Mandelshow | Explore the Mandelbrot set |
| • | Fractal Surf | create fractal landscapes |
| • | Format 10 | Use it to back up the cover disk |
| • | Crosswords | Sun & Times Crosswords. Pit your wits against Akom's newspaper crosswords |
| • | Tracker | This month's hardware project is a device that shows you which track and side the disk drive is reading. Tracker is a program that helps you test your newly constructed project |
| • | GFA Demos | Make music with GFA BASIC |
| Super STs to star at PC show | Atari's ST compatible machines, launched at the Atari Messe in Dusseldorf in Germany, are to be displayed at the PC show. |
| Off your trolley | One lucky ST format reader will have the opportunity of filling a shopping trolley with software and hardware for the ST at the multi-format Computer Shopper Show in late November |
| Fantastic Day | Many ST applications rely on screen and printer fonts for display and output. |
| Fast Worker | Turbo 16 from FAST Technology is the latest in a long list of accelerator boards to appear for the ST. |
| Microdeal on show | Microdeal organised a recent press bash at the Novotel center in London to show off their latest line of products |
| Page the Oracle | Microtext, creator of the Teletext receivers for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC, has come up with a sytem enabling ST users to display and download Teletext frames on the Atari ST |
| Castle Warrior | Delphine / Palace | £19.99 | 43% | |
| Conflict Europe | PSS / Mirrorsoft | £24.99 | 84% | |
| Eye of Horus | Logotron | £24.95 | 84% | |
| Games Summer Edition | Epyx / US Gold | £19.95 | 82% | |
| New Zealand Story | Ocean | £19.99 | 78% | |
| Passing Shot | Image Works / Mirrorsoft | £19.95 | 71% | |
| Rocket Ranger | Cinemaware / Mirrorsoft | £24.95 | 73% | |
| Slayer | Hewson | £19.95 | 54% | |
| Strider | US Gold | £19.99 | 92% |  |
| Xenon 2 | Mirrorsoft | £24.99 | 90% | |
| The STE‘s Technical Details |
| Eprom Blower | J E Sinclare | 80% | ||
| That's Write | Compo | 82% | ||
| Tempus 2 | Hisoft | 78% | ||
| Regent Word 2 | ISM | 89% | ||
| Virtuoso | Digital Muse | |||
| Fun School 2 | Database | |||
| Hypercache | Third Coast | 79% | ||
| GFA Raytrace | GFA | 78% |
| Xenon 2 |
